We evaluated the coverages of expanded program immunization in children under 6 years old for 2021. conducted a cross-sectional survey from October to November 2021, poor municipality Colombia (73,653 inhabitants, 5,796 <6 year) mainly affected by armed conflict. A two-stage cluster sampling with precision 5.5% and design effect 2 was performed. considered non-response rate 20%. In each househo...

INTRODUCTION In France, young adults are legally freed from parental authority at the age of 18 years and are, thus, responsible for their own vaccine record. This young adult population is more frequently exposed to vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. OBJECTIVE To determine the factors associated with students' knowledge of the interval between two antitetanus boosters and their report ...

This study compares metadiscourse markers in result and discussion sections of literature and engineering research papers. To this end, 40 research articles (20 literature and 20 engineering) are selected from two major international journals. Based on Hyland’s (2005) model of metadiscourse, the articles are codified in terms of frequency, percentage, and density of interactive and interactiona...

T HE development of rocket .boosters and fuels c,~pable of high orbital payloads, including manned space probes, has drawn attention to the immediate application of biologic studies in the weightless state. The meager evidence available from the dog in Sputnik II encourages us to believe that the 'human organism can endure zero gravity, but complications may arise from prolonged exposure. Atten...

By distinguishing long and short TCP flows, we address in this paper the problem of efficiently computing the characteristics of long flows. Instead of using time consuming off-line flow classification procedures, we investigate how flow characteristics could directly be inferred from traffic measurements by means of digital signal processing techniques. The proposed approach consists of classi...

The need for boosters for tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, and polio, starting from preschool age, is related to the waning immune protection conferred by vaccination, the elimination/reduction of natural boosters due to large-scale immunization programs, and the possibility of reintroduction of wild agents from endemic areas. Taking into account the relevance of safety/tolerability in the compl...

Available epidemiological data shows that an average number of 59 cases of tetanus per year are still reported in Italy. Most of cases (80.2%) occur in subjects > 64 years-old. Furthermore, the proportion of females among subjects ≥ 65 years-old is significantly higher than males (87.7% vs. 64.4%, p < 0.0001). Seroprevalence data show that the percentage of subjects with protective tetanus anti...